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1 Letters Patent No. 113,388, daad April 4, 1871.

VlMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHING MARBLE T-OPS AND BACKS OF WASH-STANDS.

4'.lhe Schedule referred to in. these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it lmay concern..- Y

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. Barmen, of Cincinv nati, in the county of Hamilton and inthe State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attaching together Marble Tops and Backs for Vmeans employed for securing said parts together;

and

Figure 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the fastening used.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures. Y

As usually constructed, vertical slabs at the rear of Vmarble-tops for wash-stands are secured theretoby means of ordinary wood-screws passing upward through said tops into an opening drilled in the lower edge of said back, and partially filled with lead.

This method of secnrin g together said parts is,how ever, open to serious objections, as the joint possesses no strength other than that afforded by the rigidity of the screws, and any strain upon the back is certain to loosen said screws within the lead filling so as topermit said back to have more or less motion whenever any jar is given to the stand.

lo remove these objections is the design ot my invention, which consists in the employment of a metal fastening so constructed as to embrace the lower face of the top and the rear face of the'back, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter set forth.

In. the annexed drawing- A represents a metal plate having secured to its.

lower end an arm, B, corresponding in width therewith, and from thence extending outward at a right angle to said plate. v

A stud or piu, (l, extending inward and downward from the lplate A, near its upper end, and a suitable hole, D, provided inand through the arm B, and countei-sunk upon its lower side, completes the fastening, which is used as follows:

A hole is drilled in the rear face of the back slab E, at a suitable height and inclination topermit of the insertion therein ofthe stud() and bring the lower or horizontal part B ata sufficient distance below the lower edge of said slab to permit ot' the insertion between the same and said arm of the top slab F, care being necessary in thus adjusting said fastening to leave no greater spacebelow the back slab than will be closely filled bythe topslab;

When thus arranged a hole corresponding in posi- Vtion with the opening 'D is drilled upward through the top slab F and into the edgetof the back slab E and plugged with'lead, after which an ordinary wood-screw G is inserted, completing the operation and firmly binding said parts together.-

It may prove advantageous Vto let the arm B into the slab so as to'bring their lower faces in ya line, and permitsaid slab to rest upon a plane surface.

This device affords largely-increased strength to the j oiut, between the slabs and, while somewhat more diflicult of application, so greatly adds to the durability of the parts as to render its use advantageous.

Having` thus fully set foiththe nature and merits of my inv ention XVhat `I claim as new is- Thc right-angled brace or fastening A and B, provided with the stud C and opening D, for application to the vertical and horizontal slabs of a wash-stand top, 'substantially as and for the purpose specified.

1n testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto setmy hand this 2Sthday of"]d`cb1uary, 1871` WILLIAM J. vBENDER. Witnesses z PAUL SoHUscrnn, l J. R. FRoHMILLnn. 

